Bellocq's Women

Bellocq's Women
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Publisher : Random House
Total Pages : 205
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ISBN-10 : 9781446412381
ISBN-13 : 1446412385
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Book Synopsis Bellocq's Women by : Peter Everett

Download or read book Bellocq's Women written by Peter Everett and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1912, in Storyville, the notorious red-light district of New Orleans, a photographer named E. J. Bellocq took a series of photographs of the women who worked in the brothels. Rediscovered in the 1950s, Bellocq's photographs have become famous, but the man himself remains a mystery.In Bellocq's Women, Peter Everett performs as remarkable a feat of fictional reconstruction as he did in Matisse's War and The Voyages of Alfred Wallis. All we have of Bellocq are his photographs and a few fragmentary memories; in this extraordinary novel Everett not only brings the photographer to life - and with him his strange, tortured relationship with his mother and two young girls, one his landlady's daughter, the other a child whore - but also his world - the opium dens and bar rooms of New Orleans and the whore houses with their surreal combination of violence and homeliness.

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